1.
A ~ place is attractive and interesting, and has no ugly modern buildings.
Alte, in the hills northwest of Loule, is the Algarve’s most ~ village.
ADJ
•
You can refer to ~ things as the ~.
...lovers of the ~.
N-SING: the N
~ly
...the shanty-towns perched ~ly on the hillsides.
ADV
2.
Picturesque words and expressions are unusual or poetic.
Every inn had a ~ name–the Black Locust Inn, the Blueberry Inn.
ADJ
~ly
The historian Yakut described it ~ly as a ‘mother of castles’.
ADV: ADV with v